If you played fantasy baseball in an AL league last year, you probably already know about Bobby Kielty, the Twins outfielder who’s fighting for at-bats in Ron Gardenhire’s lineup. The Twins are awash in talented young hitters, so Kielty was limited to about 350 PA while posting a .405 OBP and a .484 SLG — …
Lee Sinins, who runs the essential Around the Majors mailing list and produces an annual CD-ROM called the Sabermetric Baseball Encyclopedia, has a new offering this spring. It’s called the ATM Reports Player Comments book, and it contains the kinds of handy statistical analysis on the order of Lee’s other products: short blurbs about how …
With slow news days in the baseball world lately (the Yanks are spending money; an idiot ump is on the loose) and plenty of chaos at my j-o-b, I’ve been retreating to the serenity of my spreadsheets lately. It looks as though I’ll be spending a bit more time there, as I’ve taken it upon …
The Baseball Primer version of my Hoyt piece, featuring 20 additional pitchers (now a total of 55), is now up. It’s even listed on the front page of the site. This is the first time I’ve had an article published at BP, so it’s a proud day for me. I guess this makes me a …
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On February 1st, the best website in the history of the galaxy will celebrate its third birthday. If you’ve read my site regularly, you know that I often sing the praises of Baseball-Reference.com and you may even know that I designed the site’s Babe Ruth banner that gets seen millions (yes, millions) of times a …
I’m nerding out over revising my Hoyt piece for Baseball Primer and I think I just discovered why my data charts look different depending on which browser I’m using — it’s the invisible tab characters which are artifacts of cutting and pasting from Excel. Might try to redo some of those charts in my piece …
Here’s one shameless final plea to consider voting for this site in the 2003 Primeys. My category, Best Internet Baseball Weblog, is #9 on the list, and voting closes today. Thanks!
Relief pitchers are the most underrepresented position in the Hall of Fame. Thus far, voters have deemed only two of them, Hoyt Wilhelm and Rollie Fingers, worthy of admission to Cooperstown. This year’s ballot contained three reasonable candidates — Rich Gossage, Lee Smith and Bruce Sutter — none of whom came close to the 75% …
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Pitchers have their Cy Youngs, scientists have their Nobels, and movies have their Oscars. Now we internet-savvy baseball buffs have our own award: the Primeys. Sponsored by Baseball Primer, the Primeys reward serious commentary and silly humor, great posts, great discussion threads, and great websites. Some of the people nominated for these awards are pros …
I’m swamped with work right now and pretty damn ornery as well, stuck on a three-month-long math project at work which has made my life a living hell. I’m Samuel L. Jackson’s Jules Winfield character in Pulp Fiction when he’s on brain detail, a “mushroom-cloud-laying m*****f*****.” It ain’t pretty. Needless to say, I haven’t had …
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